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Delivering person-centred holistic care for older people (2017)
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(2017). Delivering person-centred holistic care for older people. Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, 157-167. https://doi.org/10.1108/QAOA-05-2016-0019

Purpose: an evaluated case study of the Wellbeing Coordinator (WBC) service in Cheshire (UK). WBCs are non-clinical members of the GP surgery or hospital team who offer advice and support to help people with long-term conditions and unmet social need... Read More about Delivering person-centred holistic care for older people.

The nature of psychology: Reflections on university teachers' experiences of teaching sensitive topics (2017)
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(2017). The nature of psychology: Reflections on university teachers' experiences of teaching sensitive topics. Psychology Teaching Review, 4 -14

This paper describes one aspect of a larger scale qualitative study conducted to investigate psychology-specific issues in learning and teaching in higher education. Participants included academic psychologists from across the career spectrum and fro... Read More about The nature of psychology: Reflections on university teachers' experiences of teaching sensitive topics.

The SCUBA-2 Ambitious Sky Survey: a catalogue of beam- sized sources in the Galactic longitude range 120 degrees-140 degrees (2017)
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(2017). The SCUBA-2 Ambitious Sky Survey: a catalogue of beam- sized sources in the Galactic longitude range 120 degrees-140 degrees. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 250 - 260. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx339

The SCUBA-2 Ambitious Sky Survey (SASSy) is composed of shallow 850-µm imaging using the Submillimetre Common-User Bolometer Array 2 (SCUBA-2) on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope. Here we describe the extraction of a catalogue of beam-sized sources... Read More about The SCUBA-2 Ambitious Sky Survey: a catalogue of beam- sized sources in the Galactic longitude range 120 degrees-140 degrees.

Constructing Synthetic Biology Workflows in the Cloud (2017)
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Misirli. (2017). Constructing Synthetic Biology Workflows in the Cloud. Engineering Biology, 61-65. https://doi.org/10.1049/enb.2017.0001

The synthetic biology design process has traditionally been heavily dependent upon manual searching, acquisition and integration of existing biological data. A large amount of such data is already available from Internet-based resources, but data exc... Read More about Constructing Synthetic Biology Workflows in the Cloud.

Functional attributes of epilithic diatoms for palaeoenvironmental interpretations in South-West Greenland lakes (2017)
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McGowan, S., Gunn, H. V., Whiteford, E. J., Anderson, N. J., Jones, V. J., & Law, A. C. (2017). Functional attributes of epilithic diatoms for palaeoenvironmental interpretations in South-West Greenland lakes. Journal of Paleolimnology, 60(2), 273-298. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-017-9968-9

Benthic diatoms are commonly used for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction in Arctic regions, but interpretation of their ecology remains challenging. We studied epilithic diatom assemblages from the shallow margins of 19 lakes from three areas (coast-... Read More about Functional attributes of epilithic diatoms for palaeoenvironmental interpretations in South-West Greenland lakes.

Deregulation of miRNAs in malignant pleural mesothelioma is associated with prognosis and suggests an alteration of cell metabolism (2017)
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De Santi, C., Melaiu, O., Bonotti, A., Cascione, L., Di Leva, G., Foddis, R., …Landi, S. (2017). Deregulation of miRNAs in malignant pleural mesothelioma is associated with prognosis and suggests an alteration of cell metabolism. Scientific reports, 7, Article ARTN 3140. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-02694-0

Malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is an aggressive human cancer and miRNAs can play a key role for this disease. In order to broaden the knowledge in this field, the miRNA expression was investigated in a large series of MPM to discover new pathwa... Read More about Deregulation of miRNAs in malignant pleural mesothelioma is associated with prognosis and suggests an alteration of cell metabolism.

Functional attributes of epilithic diatoms for palaeoenvironmental interpretations in South-West Greenland lakes (2017)
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Law, A. (2017). Functional attributes of epilithic diatoms for palaeoenvironmental interpretations in South-West Greenland lakes. Journal of Paleolimnology, 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10933-017-9968-9

Benthic diatoms are commonly used for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction in Arctic regions, but interpretation of their ecology remains challenging. We studied epilithic diatom assemblages from the shallow margins of 19 lakes from three areas (coast-... Read More about Functional attributes of epilithic diatoms for palaeoenvironmental interpretations in South-West Greenland lakes.

The neutron capture process in the He shell in core-collapse suprenovae: Presolar silicon carbide grains as a diagnostic tool for nuclear astrophysics (2017)
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Pignatari, M., Hoppe, P., Trappitsch, R., Fryer, C., Timmes, F., Herwig, F., & Hirschi, R. (2017). The neutron capture process in the He shell in core-collapse suprenovae: Presolar silicon carbide grains as a diagnostic tool for nuclear astrophysics. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 221, 37-46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gca.2017.06.005

Carbon-rich presolar grains are found in primitive meteorites, with isotopic measurements to date suggesting a core-collapse supernovae origin site for some of them. This holds for about 1–2% of presolar silicon carbide (SiC) grains, so-called Type X... Read More about The neutron capture process in the He shell in core-collapse suprenovae: Presolar silicon carbide grains as a diagnostic tool for nuclear astrophysics.

Accelerated versus standard epirubicin followed by cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, and fluorouracil or capecitabine as adjuvant therapy for breast cancer in the randomised UK TACT2 trial (CRUK/05/19): a multicentre, phase 3, open-label, randomised, controlled trial (2017)
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Cameron, D., Morden, J. P., Canney, P., Velikova, G., Coleman, R., Bartlett, J., …Bliss, J. M. (2017). Accelerated versus standard epirubicin followed by cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, and fluorouracil or capecitabine as adjuvant therapy for breast cancer in the randomised UK TACT2 trial (CRUK/05/19): a multicentre, phase 3, open-label, randomised, controlled trial. Lancet Oncology, 18(7), 929 - 945. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1470-2045%2817%2930404-7

Background Adjuvant chemotherapy for early breast cancer has improved outcomes but causes toxicity. The UK TACT2 trial used a 2×2 factorial design to test two hypotheses: whether use of accelerated epirubicin would improve time to tumour recurrence... Read More about Accelerated versus standard epirubicin followed by cyclophosphamide, methotrexate, and fluorouracil or capecitabine as adjuvant therapy for breast cancer in the randomised UK TACT2 trial (CRUK/05/19): a multicentre, phase 3, open-label, randomised, controlled trial.

The social psychology of collective victimhood (2017)
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Noor. (2017). The social psychology of collective victimhood. European Journal of Social Psychology, 121 -134. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2300

Collective victimhood, which results from the experience of being targeted as members of a group, has powerful effects on individuals and groups. The focus of this Special Issue is on how people respond to collective victimhood and how these response... Read More about The social psychology of collective victimhood.

Pyrazolo[4,3-h]quinoline Ligand-Based Iridium(III) Complexes for Electrochemiluminescence (2017)
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Hsu, C., Longhi, E., Sinn, S., Hawes, C. S., Young, D. C., Kruger, P. E., & Cola, L. D. (2017). Pyrazolo[4,3-h]quinoline Ligand-Based Iridium(III) Complexes for Electrochemiluminescence. Chemistry - An Asian Journal, 12(13), 1649-1658. https://doi.org/10.1002/asia.201700556

Electrochemiluminescence (ECL) based on [Ru(bpy)3]2+ systems is widely utilized for immunoassays. In order to extend the promising potential of ECL-based applications, IrIII complexes have recently attracted attention as probes because of their excel... Read More about Pyrazolo[4,3-h]quinoline Ligand-Based Iridium(III) Complexes for Electrochemiluminescence.

Evaluation of a novel antibody to define histone 3.3 G34R mutant brain tumours (2017)
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(2017). Evaluation of a novel antibody to define histone 3.3 G34R mutant brain tumours. Acta neuropathologica communications, https://doi.org/10.1186/s40478-017-0449-1

Missense somatic mutations affecting histone H3.1 and H3.3 proteins are now accepted as the hallmark of paediatric diffuse intrinsic pontine gliomas (DIPG), non-brain stem paediatric high grade gliomas (pHGG) as well as a subset of adult glioblastoma... Read More about Evaluation of a novel antibody to define histone 3.3 G34R mutant brain tumours.

Gender differences in teenage alcohol consumption and spatial practices (2017)
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Holdsworth. (2017). Gender differences in teenage alcohol consumption and spatial practices. Children's Geographies, 741-753. https://doi.org/10.1080/14733285.2017.1334111

In recent years teenagers have reported a decline in under-age drinking at the same time as their access to public space has been increasingly curtailed. In this paper we explore the spatial practices and drinking behaviours of a group of teenage gir... Read More about Gender differences in teenage alcohol consumption and spatial practices.

Gout and subsequent erectile dysfunction: a population-based cohort study from England (2017)
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Abdul Sultan, A., Mallen, C., Hayward, R., Muller, S., Whittle, R., Hotston, M., & Roddy, E. (2017). Gout and subsequent erectile dysfunction: a population-based cohort study from England. Arthritis Research and Therapy, 19, Article 123. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13075-017-1322-0

BACKGROUND: An association has been suggested between gout and erectile dysfunction (ED), however studies quantifying the risk of ED amongst gout patients are lacking. We aimed to precisely determine the population-level absolute and relative rate of... Read More about Gout and subsequent erectile dysfunction: a population-based cohort study from England.

Use of Underarm Cosmetic Products in Relation to Risk of Breast Cancer: A Case-Control Study (2017)
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(2017). Use of Underarm Cosmetic Products in Relation to Risk of Breast Cancer: A Case-Control Study. EBioMedicine, 79-85. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ebiom.2017.06.005

Background Previous studies on breast cancer (BC), underarm cosmetic products (UCP) and aluminum salts have shown conflicting results. We conducted a 1:1 age-matched case-control study to investigate the risk for BC in relation to self-reported UCP... Read More about Use of Underarm Cosmetic Products in Relation to Risk of Breast Cancer: A Case-Control Study.

Patients' evaluations of patient safety in English general practices: a cross-sectional study. (2017)
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(2017). Patients' evaluations of patient safety in English general practices: a cross-sectional study. British Journal of General Practice (BJGP), https://doi.org/10.3399/bjgp17X691085

BACKGROUND: Description of safety problems and harm in general practices has previously relied on information from health professionals, with scarce attention paid to experiences of patients. AIM: To examine patient-reported experiences and outcomes... Read More about Patients' evaluations of patient safety in English general practices: a cross-sectional study..

Genre on the Road: The Road Movie as Automobilities Research (2017)
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Archer. (2017). Genre on the Road: The Road Movie as Automobilities Research. Mobilities, 509-519. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2017.1330988

This article argues for the use of film studies in the study of mobilities, with a specific focus on the analysis of genre, and the particularly fictional character of genre film. The article focuses on genre’s emerging and shifting forms across temp... Read More about Genre on the Road: The Road Movie as Automobilities Research.

Effect of a model consultation informed by guideline on recorded quality of care of osteoarthritis (MOSAICS): a cluster randomised controlled trial in primary care (2017)
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Jordan, K., Edwards, J., Porcheret, M., Healey, E., Jinks, C., Bedson, J., …Dziedzic, K. (2017). Effect of a model consultation informed by guideline on recorded quality of care of osteoarthritis (MOSAICS): a cluster randomised controlled trial in primary care. Osteoarthritis and Cartilage, 25(10), 1588-1597. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joca.2017.05.017

Objective To determine the effect of a model osteoarthritis (OA) consultation (MOAC) informed by National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommendations compared with usual care on recorded quality of care of clinical OA in general... Read More about Effect of a model consultation informed by guideline on recorded quality of care of osteoarthritis (MOSAICS): a cluster randomised controlled trial in primary care.

Multidimensional measurement of exposure to music in childhood: Beyond the musician/non-musician dichotomy (2017)
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Cogo-Moreira, H., & Lamont, A. (2018). Multidimensional measurement of exposure to music in childhood: Beyond the musician/non-musician dichotomy. Psychology of Music, 46(4), 459-472. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305735617710322

Much research in music psychology characterizes the music background of its participants in a dichotomous manner, labeling participants as “musicians” and “non-musicians” or professionals and non-professionals. However, this terminology is inconsiste... Read More about Multidimensional measurement of exposure to music in childhood: Beyond the musician/non-musician dichotomy.